Embroidered Mesh Word Art for Nursery

Posted on October 28, 2016

Embroidery was one of my very first crafting loves. So, when I was invited to try out a new product from DMC I jumped at the chance. This new stitchable mesh is so amazing and gives me a fun new medium to create on! They also have stitchable cork and cork with gold flakes! I was able to get my hands on some of that too and I can’t wait to play with it.

When I was thinking about what kind of project I would do I knew I wanted to create something inspired by the amazing Cheri of TinkerEllen because I think her work is just amazing. That was when I decided to create some art for my baby’s nursery. I figured it was time I get working on her room, since she turned one in July.I decided to create some word art that reflected qualities I hope my sweet girl develops in her life- Happy, Brave and Kind.

I wanted to finish the outside of the hoop by wrapping it with yarn, and since the mesh creases, I knew I needed to do the wrapping before I put the mesh in the hoop. I found it easiest to do this by creating a yarn ball first and then passing that around the outside hoop to create the wrapped texture.

Then it was time to create the patterns and transfer them to the mesh. The mesh comes in 10″ X 10″ sheets and it does fray, so I put some tape around the edges to hold it together and flatten out the piece a bit. There are two sides to the mesh as well, a silver side, and a gold side. I decided to use the silver side. The first piece I transferred I used a ball point pen to transfer the design, but I found it was so faded I had a hard time following the pattern. For the next pattern I traced, I used a thin Sharpie marker. I found it was much easier to see when I went to stitch the pattern and it didn’t rub off. The down side to sharpie is that you CAN see it clearly so you will want to be really careful with what you transfer.

Were I do to it again, I would not trace the circles for the wagon wheel flowers, I would just put dots where the wrap stitches go, that way I don’t have to worry about covering up the circles. Does that make sense? Even the sprig borders I would probably just add dots at the top of the leaf instead of tracing the whole leaf, just so there wasn’t any background black showing through. I did end up stitching past my marked lines on the flowers and their leaves to make sure they were covered up as much as I could. That being said- I don’t really notice any of the markings on my finished pieces.

Once the pieces were finished being stitched, I tightened the mesh in the hoop and just trimmed off the extra mesh as close to the hoop as I could using sharp scissors.

This was my first time stitching wagon wheel flowers and I am in love with the dimension and texture they add to the pieces. I also adore the shine of the mesh and just love how it adds another level of awesome to this art.

I don’t know if this is where they will live forever, but I really kind of love how theymatch the ribbon mobile I made.If there is some interest in the pattern for these, I will get them written up, so leave a comment if you’d like to see one.And, as a bonus, this project got me to finally hang some things on my baby’s wall, so we’re winning all the way around over here. 🙂Hope you have a great day too!xoxo,Amy

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